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Food Safety

Have you ever thought that it’s possible that people who eat more meat as part of a low carb way of eating are at a higher risk of food borne illness? I don’t know if this is true. I do know that being careful and smart about handling meat can mean fewer bouts of illness for you and your family and reduce the likelihood of having a serious food poisoning occur.

I remember Oprah spending months harping on and on about not thawing out chicken on the counter. At the time, I have to admit that I found it annoying. Now I am wondering how many lives she may have saved with her tirades.

There are lots of government websites and other resources that can provide more accurate and complete information about food safety…

WHO page on food safety

Foodlink

The FDA’s Playing it Safe with Eggs

Have you Heard About FitReach?

If you are looking for a convenient way to stay on track with your fitness and dietary goals, you should check out FitReach. You can use the site to help you track your progress, whether your goal is weight loss or muscle gain.

You can create a training plan and input your statistics and your results. Your FitReach account can also serve up a great way to manage your diet. In the information age, we have a lot of information at our fingertips with regard to diet and fitness. There are enough trusted sources and review sites out there to help you separate the good info from the bad if you do a little homework. Knowing how to lose weight and/or get fit is not the issue with most of us. As often as not we fail to stick to perfectly good plans because we lack the motivation or the organization. Tools like FitReach help people firm up a plan and stick to it. Your progress is visible to other FitReach members, if you choose to make it visible.

Creating a FitReach profile is quick and easy. Getting fit and/or losing weight is not quick and easy, but anything that you can do to keep yourself on track is worth looking into.

Spreadable Butter Made Easy

I recently felt more joy than circumstances warranted when I started using our new can opener. Basically, our old one was crap and the new one was as good as it gets. I hadn’t realized just how much my life had been diminished by that crappy can opener.

This post is not about can openers, it is about a really cool French butter keeper from Vat19. Seeing how it works has made me question how much better my life could be if my butter would spread well at room temperature. I should note that with the cost of heating fuel rising, ‘room’ temperature is lower than ever, at least in the winter.

Vat19 is a really cool online store. Some product are a bit silly and some are pure genius.

Check out ‘Normal Eating’

I am not promoting the school of thought that is being referred to as Normal Eating. It interests me and I haven’t heard or read anything about it that I found discouraging. The basic idea is that our bodies know how to regulate weight properly and that teaching ourselves to eat based on physiological cues and to ignore emotional and societal cues will result in healthy weight loss. I recommend that you all read up on it. The only criticism that I have is that many people are so entrenched in a culture that overeats that calling this ‘normal eating’ will sound elitist to their family and friends. In a society, normal is what everyone decides to call normal. I could be wrong.

Which Presidential Hopeful is a Weight Loss Success Story?

In my mind, the act of taking control of your personal health and losing 100 pounds seems like a pretty good talking point for a political candidate. I am a bit out of the loop, but I am still surprised that I didn’t see this bit of trivia in the news coverage during all these months of campaigning. I would like all my regular commentators to let me know if they already knew. Also, if you don’t know, take a guess. I’ll give you one hint. It’s not Obama.

The Biggest Losers

These girls from Diet.com were cheering on the losing team. There are some nasty comments on this video, but they are predominantly about football for a change. I tend to jump in and defend YouTube personalities against the horrible personal attacks that they typically endure, and I don’t make an exception for these women, but I do find them kind of annoying. I personally don’t think that creating pale imitations of the high calorie snacks that we should just give up on is a very good WOE either. That’s just my opinion. I an unbiased when it comes to the SuperBowl. I’m am glad that it was exciting in comparison to some past years.

Where are All the Pro-Kimkins Blogs?

If you perform a Google Blog Search for the term Kimkins, you see that the only kimkins supporter on the first page is, well, Heidi Diaz. Heidi has more than one blog, but the only item on the front page is form the subdirectory of her website.

I found an article from some LawyersAndSettlements.com a few pages in that looks interesting.

I think that blogs rank higher in this search when there are frequent and recent posts related to the search term. Heidi’s blogspot blog shows up on page six of the search.

Good News about Weight Loss

There is good news this morning. A medical study has concluded that moderate weight loss in overweight adults improves heart health. It further indicated that the benefit was there whether you chose diet, exercise or a combination. The best part of this is that benefits are immediate and apparent. People who know that they need to lose several pounds do not seem to take late onset diabetes and high blood pressure as a call to action. If you are conclusively told that you will feel younger if you lose weight, is that enough motivation?

The Biggest Winner

Belated congratulations go out to Tracie, the 2007 winner of YouTube’s Weight Loss Challenge.

This year, contestants have a weekly chance at winning a new video camera. The Diet.com Video Weight Loss Challenge starts soon. It’s interesting to see how many success stories happen with a community that is weighted more towards support and inspiration than it is towards focused strategies. It could be that it is just a numbers game.

Organic Valentine’s Chocolate

I expect that there are a few dieters that take a day off for Valentine’s. If you are a mostly recovered chocaholic who is planning to jump off the wagon and then jump right back on, I would advise you to enjoy some really good chocolate, like this Organic Valentine’s Chocolate from KatesCaringGifts.com.

If you want to go as low carb as possible and still indulge, I think that coffee beans covered in dark chocolate might be the best option. The Chocolate Covered Coffee Beans from this store are Fair Trade and Organic. They do have sugar in the ingredient list.